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Votes counts for local level elections continues

On Friday, voters cast ballots at 21,955 polling places in 10,756 polling places across the country.

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KATHMANDU: MAY. 14 – Votes in the local level election are being counted across the country.

According to the Election Commission, the results of some places have already been declared, and the counting of votes is underway in the majority of places.

To secure the polling stations, a large number of security personnel have been deployed. On Friday, voters cast ballots at 21,955 polling places in 10,756 polling places across the country.

A total of 35,221 people’s representatives including 753 local level chiefs/deputy chiefs, chairpersons / vice-chairpersons, ward chairpersons, Dalit women members, women members and open ward members will be elected from the election.

Under this, 293 chiefs and deputy chiefs in 6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities and 276 municipalities, one each chairperson and vice-chairperson in 460 villages, and ward chairpersons in 6,743 wards, the same number of women and Dalit women members and 13,486 open ward members will be elected.